Let us not underestimate the power of this prayer that, through Mary’s intercession, brings us to the heart of salvation history, and helps open our hearts to the power of the Spirit, just as Mary’s was.Read More

On this feast of St. Francis of Assisi, I note that Bl. Stanley’s middle name was Francis and that he lived his priesthood in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi. Like Francis, Father Rother lived simply, was close to nature, and devoted his life utterly to bringing the Gospel to the poor.Read More

As you know better than me, the phrase “wall of separation” appears nowhere in the Constitution and still less in the Bill of Rights. Rather, it originates in an 1802 letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury (CT) Baptist Association whose members had written to him complaining that their religious freedom and rights of...Read More

It turns out that the evangelization might not be as complicated as we think and the steps we need to take to evangelize effectively are not out of reach; nor are the people we are trying to evangelize as tough to reach as we might think. The good news is that many of the reasons...Read More

Filled with the Holy Spirit, Bl. Theresa of Jesus understood what many others in her day did not understand, namely, Things did not have to remain the way they were. Things could change and they could change for the better.Read More

Jesus’ final words to us this night seem to imply a divine law of economics: “To anyone who has, more will be given and from the one who has not,  even what he seems to have will be taken away.” Yet, these words of Jesus do not refer either to our charts of accounts or...Read More

IND has a long history but every new academic year is a new beginning. Although you have been hard at work for several weeks, we have today the opportunity to mark the beginning of this school year with a Mass invoking the special help of the Holy Spirit – asking that the same Spirit who...Read More

Dear friends, how grateful we should be for the example of these two saints who teach us two qualities of missionary discipleship found in our Scripture readings: namely, forgiveness and self-giving love, two qualities all of us need if we would be ardent Christians on fire with love for Jesus.Read More